Week No. 5 7/16/08
well another week down and 4 or so to go. time is really starting to pick up. O templo foi otimo hoje. o temple de são paulo is like the best. There’s stained oak and just awesome, just wished devon could have been there with me. so last week i got my first hair cut from the ctm barber yeah, he like doesn’t look when he is cutting and just talks and sings the whole time but he has cut hair at all four of the ctms that have been in brazil. but its funny cause like elders will come to class with missed spot in there hair, i don’t have that problem cause i was like ‘hey focus on my hair’ but he doesn’t speak english so it’s funny to try and talk to him.
we taught a family last saturday it was kool, but not at the same time. like there’s 12 in the district and only enuff rooms for half so we had to split up so me and doogy had to teach with others. i taught with elder coats (idaho) and elder halgren (montana) they did awesome. i stumbled but got my message out. it was awesome cause there wasn’t a word that i wanted to say that i didn’t know, so i totally had everything i needed to say in my lesson. there was some divine help with that cause me and housley tried to teach our lesson the night before and we couldn’t keep it under 15 mins.
all is well aqui the language is ok i feel a lot better EVEN THO ELDER SNEEZE-ALL-DAY (housley) GOT ME SICK so yea, I sleep better even tho I’m sick, weird.
can’t wait to leave the place they call spirit prison love you all, elder marx
sure, dad, you can use my 47 inch tv while I’m gone…LOL
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
(note before I start Scott’s email. Most people hanging around our family will end up with a nickname. After the first week when we heard Scott’s companion, Elder Housley, was a pretty studious kid, we were a little concerned. Scott, to say the least, isn’t. We’ve nicknamed Scott’s companion Doogie Houser. So that’s who Scott’s referring to when he says doogie, his companion. He also is DYING to meet an apostle in real life. When he read Devon’s letter about all the apostles at the mtc in provo for missionary president training, scott was bummed. That’s the explanation for another reference he was making. And finally, with 45 cousins in the Vegas valley, our kids are constantly meeting people that know a cousin or aunt and uncle, the first thing every body asks is …are you related to…)
Ok, so you were right. i think i told you about this other missionary serving in the SP north which covers the ctm and all the teachers live close to the ctm and this elder marx is in their ward. so guess what i get every time i see a new teacher "marx, marx are you related too?" not kidding. It’s crazy, i can’t escape it! I’m in another hemisphere and i still get it. but it’s all good. so for the 4th of july all the americans totally played it up. I’ve never been so patriotic in my life. for lunch we did get burgers and fries and what the brazilians could call ice cream it just wasn’t the same, but I’m grateful for their effort. on sunday we had ctm conference cause of it being fast sunday (have them every fast sunday and tell brian that not even the water fountains work let alone the vending machines) plus if you see someone go even a inch toward a water fountain your like HEY its fast Sunday, cause if i have to fast so do you. i sang in a quartet the star spangle banner it was pretty good.
ok last friday we went tracking. IT WAS AWESOME. it was the first time i really felt like a missionary. so much fun. tell devon to keep his apostles, i talked to people in my mission language. Shnazzberries! (i told my district about shnazzberries at first they thought it was stupid but soon enough one was like shnazzberries! Yeah, that’s right, spreading the word.) we must have talked to like 60 people. most of them were like what ? no, get away, cause i guess the missionaries go to the same place every friday and so they were prepared by the wrong person. i even talked to a anti in english from north Carolina. Yeah, he said that we’re a really good business and we were doing good coming and talkin to all the poor gullible people takin 10 percent of there money. he also said that’s what a bishop told him in north carolina (good job brian... jk) but me and doogie just bared our testimony and left. it was sad that his heart was hardened. hopefully we softened it a little . that’s what we keep hearing "just leave a good impression for the next missionaries" if that’s the case, do i get to count it to my total if they get baptized? Jk. wrong attitude i know, but funny.
so this saturday me and doogie are teaching a member family in the ctm like all memory no papers and all in Portuguese, so plaese pray for doogie so he can talk the whole time and I’ll just testify.
Um, i think that’s it. oh we went to the são paulo temple today so we got back a lot earlier than usual so I’m looking forward to chillin. so today is a holiday so I wasn’t even sure if the email place would be open. i guess like in 1878 or some stupid year brazil almost had a civil war so now they celebrate an almost fight ... sounds to me like some lame excuse of a day off work.
Ok, so you were right. i think i told you about this other missionary serving in the SP north which covers the ctm and all the teachers live close to the ctm and this elder marx is in their ward. so guess what i get every time i see a new teacher "marx, marx are you related too?" not kidding. It’s crazy, i can’t escape it! I’m in another hemisphere and i still get it. but it’s all good. so for the 4th of july all the americans totally played it up. I’ve never been so patriotic in my life. for lunch we did get burgers and fries and what the brazilians could call ice cream it just wasn’t the same, but I’m grateful for their effort. on sunday we had ctm conference cause of it being fast sunday (have them every fast sunday and tell brian that not even the water fountains work let alone the vending machines) plus if you see someone go even a inch toward a water fountain your like HEY its fast Sunday, cause if i have to fast so do you. i sang in a quartet the star spangle banner it was pretty good.
ok last friday we went tracking. IT WAS AWESOME. it was the first time i really felt like a missionary. so much fun. tell devon to keep his apostles, i talked to people in my mission language. Shnazzberries! (i told my district about shnazzberries at first they thought it was stupid but soon enough one was like shnazzberries! Yeah, that’s right, spreading the word.) we must have talked to like 60 people. most of them were like what ? no, get away, cause i guess the missionaries go to the same place every friday and so they were prepared by the wrong person. i even talked to a anti in english from north Carolina. Yeah, he said that we’re a really good business and we were doing good coming and talkin to all the poor gullible people takin 10 percent of there money. he also said that’s what a bishop told him in north carolina (good job brian... jk) but me and doogie just bared our testimony and left. it was sad that his heart was hardened. hopefully we softened it a little . that’s what we keep hearing "just leave a good impression for the next missionaries" if that’s the case, do i get to count it to my total if they get baptized? Jk. wrong attitude i know, but funny.
so this saturday me and doogie are teaching a member family in the ctm like all memory no papers and all in Portuguese, so plaese pray for doogie so he can talk the whole time and I’ll just testify.
Um, i think that’s it. oh we went to the são paulo temple today so we got back a lot earlier than usual so I’m looking forward to chillin. so today is a holiday so I wasn’t even sure if the email place would be open. i guess like in 1878 or some stupid year brazil almost had a civil war so now they celebrate an almost fight ... sounds to me like some lame excuse of a day off work.
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